How were the relations among image, imagination and cognition characterized in the period 1500 - 1800? The authors of this volume argue that in those three centuries, a thoroughgoing transformation affected the following issues: (i) what it meant to understand phenomena in the natural world (cognition); (ii) how such phenomena were visualized or pictured (images, including novel types of diagrams, structural models, maps, etc.); and (iii) what role was attributed to the faculty of the imaginatio...
Later Gothic Manuscripts, 1390-1490 (Survey of manuscripts illuminated in the British Isles, Vol 6)
by Kathleen L. Scott
Primary Colours is a course for very young learners of English. - Stories, songs, puzzles and games make Primary Colours fun, dynamic and involving. - The course is supported by a clear grammatical syllabus. - Regular revision pages reinforce what has been learnt and opportunities for self-assessment give children a sense of achievement. - The Teacher's Book offers step-by-step guidance and includes a bank of extra materials to provide busy teachers with great flexibility. - Further support and...
The Holy Apostles (Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Symposia & Colloquia (HUP)TO- [email protected])
by Margaret Mullett and Robert G. Ousterhout
The Illuminated Chronicle (Central European Medieval Texts, #9)
The Illuminated Chronicle was composed in 1358 in the international artistic style at the royal court of Louis I of Hungary. Its text, presented here in a new edition and translation, is the most complete record of Hungary's medieval historical tradition, going back to the eleventh century and including the mythical past of its people. The pictures in this manuscript-formerly known as the Vienna Chronicle-are not merely occasional illustrations added to some exemplars, but text and image are clo...
Moving with the Magdalen is the first art-historical book dedicated to the cult of Mary Magdalen in the late medieval Alps. Its seven case study chapters focus on the artworks commissioned for key churches that belonged to both parish and pilgrimage networks in order to explore the role of artistic workshops, commissioning patrons and diverse devotees in the development and transfer of the saint’s iconography across the mountain range. Together they underscore how the Magdalen’s cult and conting...
Siena, Florence and Padua (Open University: Modern Art - Practices & Debates)
This first volume addresses a wide range of issues. The essays contain discussions of the politics and the economics of the cities during the 14th century; the major practitioners of painting, sculpture and architecture; the significance of communal and familial patronage of art in the three cities; the relation of art to the religious belief and devotional practice and to the broader intellectual ambience of the cities; and the impact and significance of various historiographical traditions.
Rainbow Like an Emerald (College Art Association Monograph, #47)
by Meredith Parsons Lillich
Rainbow Like an Emerald is the most comprehensive study of Lorraine stained glass as a regional style developed in conjunction with the typical Gothic architecture of the province. Situated between France and Germany, medieval Lorraine increasingly looked to France for it cultural standards. While French in inspiration, however, its Gothic architecture and stained glass quickly developed strong regional and distinctive characteristics. This architecture has only in the last decade been studied,...
Byzantium in Eastern European Visual Culture in the Late Middle Ages, edited by Maria Alessia Rossi and Alice Isabella Sullivan, engages with issues of cultural contact and patronage, as well as the transformation and appropriation of Byzantine artistic, theological, and political models, alongside local traditions, across Eastern Europe. The regions of the Balkan Peninsula, the Carpathian Mountains, and early modern Russia have been treated in scholarship within limited frameworks or excluded a...
Illustrated with eight pages of color plates and scores of black-and-white illustrations, a ground-breaking investigation of the Gothic style in art and literature ranges from the seventeenth century to the contemporary rock band, The Cure.
Die Mittelalterlichen Wandmalereien in Niederosterreich Und Wien (Corpus Der Mittelalterlichen Wandmalereien Osterreichs, #1)
by Elga Lanc
A brilliant new reading of the Bayeux Tapestry that radically alters our understanding of the events of 1066 and reveals the astonishing story of the survival of early medieval Europe's greatest treasure. This edition does not include illustrations. The Bayeux Tapestry was embroidered (it's not really a tapestry) in the late eleventh century. As an artefact, it is priceless, incomparable - nothing of it's delicacy and texture, let alone wit, survives from the period. As a pic...
Le Parole del Castello Nelle Opere Di Dante Alighieri (Storie del Mondo Tascabili)
by Maria Cristina Ricci
Gothic and Renaissance Art in Nuremberg, 1300-1550
by Rainer Kahsnitz and William D. Wixom
Both this book and the exhibition, Gothic and Renaissance Art in Nuremberg, document the artistic vitality of one of the most influential urban centers in Europe to arise at the end of the Middle Ages. The selection of specific works of art, and the essays that illuminate them, give a clear focus to the period from the fourteenth through the first half of the sixteenth century. This was a transitional and pivotal time for Nuremberg in its evolution from an important but artistically self-contain...
This compelling book retells and revises the story of the German Renaissance and Reformation through the lives of two controversial men of the sixteenth century: the Saxon court painter Lucas Cranach (the Serpent) and the Wittenberg monk-turned-reformer Martin Luther (the Lamb). Contemporaries and friends (each was godfather to the other's children), Cranach and Luther were very different Germans, yet their collaborative successes merged art and religion into a revolutionary force that became th...
Art, Image, Power and Place
Early medieval stone sculptures survive across Europe: at waysides, in architectural settings and in churches and graveyards, and provide an exceptional source for understanding the aesthetics and beliefs of early medieval communities. England is no exception to this. Thousands of intact and fragmentary stone monuments survive from the seventh to eleventh centuries CE, evidencing the emergence of a rich Anglo-Saxon sculptural tradition in stone. These often elaborately carved monuments that were...